Appellate

  • June 15, 2026

    Ga. Appeals Court Reinstates Six Flags Wrongful Death Suit

    Six Flags Over Georgia must face a wrongful death action filed by the husband of a former "scare actor" who died when she fell out of a cargo van during Halloween festivities at the park, a Georgia appeals court ruled Monday.

  • June 15, 2026

    CareFirst Says Intent Standard Was Misread In Stelara Case

    CareFirst is arguing that a Virginia federal judge created a new standard for monopolization claims when he dismissed claims from the company's antitrust suit challenging Johnson & Johnson's protection of its immunosuppressive drug Stelara, arguing he misread a Fourth Circuit decision in ruling that monopolization requires a showing of specific intent.

  • June 15, 2026

    11th Circ. Backs Block On Ga. Unlimited Campaign Fund

    A split 11th Circuit upheld a block on Georgia campaign finance rules that allow "select incumbent officials" and some major party candidates to raise and spend unlimited funds despite limits that apply to other candidates.

  • June 15, 2026

    Mead Johnson Wins New Trial Over $60M NEC Formula Verdict

    An Illinois appellate panel has thrown out a $60 million jury verdict awarded to a mother claiming Mead Johnson's infant formula caused her premature baby to develop a fatal gut disease, saying the trial court erred in finding the company owed a duty to warn the mother and not just the infant's doctors, and allowing prejudicial evidence about Mead Johnson's profits.

  • June 15, 2026

    High Court Leaves Intact $14M Denver Protest Policing Verdict

    A Tenth Circuit ruling that upheld a $14 million jury verdict finding the city of Denver liable for its police officers' unconstitutional force against protesters during the city's 2020 Black Lives Matter protests can remain undisturbed, a U.S. Supreme Court justice said Monday.

  • June 15, 2026

    Colo. Justices OK Self-Defense Exception In At-Will Firings

    The right to self-defense applies to Colorado workers who lawfully exercise the right in response to an unprovoked attack at work even when an employer has a "don't chase or confront" policy, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.

  • June 15, 2026

    Mich. Panel Upholds Stock Redemption Order

    A Michigan state appeals court has affirmed a trial court decision that resolved a decades-long shareholder dispute between a real estate development firm and its ex-CEO by ordering the company to buy out the former executive's original $25,000 investment plus 7% interest.

  • June 15, 2026

    Tribe Moves To Drop Dakota Access Pipeline Suit in DC Circ.

    The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking the D.C. Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a decision that found its efforts to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline were premature after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a new environmental impact statement for the project last month.

  • June 15, 2026

    Alito Says Justices Should've Revived Ala. Capital Conviction

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday dissented from his colleagues' refusal to review the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals' reversal of a capital murder conviction, saying the decision ran afoul of the Supreme Court precedent on when prosecutors can comment on criminal defendants' refusal to testify in their own defense.

  • June 15, 2026

    3 Things To Know About Trump's Pick To Lead SDNY

    President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to appoint Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner James M. McDonald to lead the Southern District of New York. Here are three things to know about the BigLaw lawyer. Here are three things to know about him.

  • June 15, 2026

    DC Court OKs $6M Tax Bill For Merger Property Transfer

    The 2002 title transfer of a Washington, D.C., property resulting from the merger of a partnership and a limited liability company was subject to the district's real estate recordation and transfer taxes, an appeals court ruled, affirming a $6 million assessment.

  • June 15, 2026

    Latham Report On Seton Hall Sex Abuse Probe Partly Shielded

    A confidential Latham & Watkins LLP report prepared for Seton Hall University concerning allegations of sexual abuse against former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick is at least partly protected by attorney-client privilege, a New Jersey appellate court ruled Monday.

  • June 15, 2026

    Justices To Review Bond For Detained Noncitizens

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if noncitizens subject to removal proceedings because of criminal convictions or alleged ties to terrorism are entitled to bond hearings if they're detained for an "unreasonably prolonged" period of time during immigration proceedings.

  • June 15, 2026

    5th Circ. Rules Oilfield Driller's Hybrid Pay Bars OT Claims

    An oilfield driller who received a fixed salary alongside variable day rates was paid on a salary basis and therefore exempt from federal overtime requirements, the Fifth Circuit held, reversing a lower court's ruling in a collective action against oilfield services giant SLB.

  • June 15, 2026

    Wells Fargo, Ocwen Lose 2nd Circ. Rehearing In ERISA Suit

    The Second Circuit rejected a request for rehearing by Wells Fargo and Ocwen, which asked the court to reconsider its decision to revive a federal benefits lawsuit accusing them of mishandling home loans tied to union employee pension fund investments.

  • June 15, 2026

    Conn. High Court Pick Would Be 1st Black Woman Justice

    Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday announced that he has selected Chief Judge Melanie L. Cradle of the Connecticut Appellate Court to serve on the state supreme court, filling a vacancy that will be created when Justice Joan K. Alexander leaves the bench Aug. 1.

  • June 15, 2026

    Alaska Must Pay Tribes $1.8M In Fishing Rights Fee Fight

    A district court judge has awarded Indigenous corporations $1.8 million in attorney fees in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, saying Alaska waited too long to argue a sovereign immunity defense in the case that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • June 15, 2026

    Chevy Bolt Owners Ask 6th Circ. To Let Them Opt Out Of Deal

    Individual class members in litigation alleging General Motors sold Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles with defective batteries are urging the Sixth Circuit to reverse the decision of a Michigan federal court that rejected their opt-outs in a $150 million settlement for not being signed on paper.

  • June 15, 2026

    High Court Won't Revive Carter Page FBI Spying Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from former Trump 2016 campaign associate Carter Page to revive his lawsuit against former top FBI officials for allegedly violating his privacy rights as part of the agency's investigation into potential Russian election interference.

  • June 15, 2026

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.

  • June 15, 2026

    Law Firm Can't Revive Social Media Defamation Suit In NJ

    A New Jersey state appeals court shot down a law firm's social media defamation suit against a former client on Monday under a state law designed to protect litigants from meritless lawsuits filed to discourage free speech.

  • June 15, 2026

    Justices Decline Review In Texas Hypnosis Death Row Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the case of a Texas death row prisoner who argued that his conviction rests on eyewitness testimony influenced by investigative hypnosis, a practice the state has since barred in criminal cases.

  • June 15, 2026

    Justices Decline To Hear Pa. Prison ADA Liability Challenge

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up Pennsylvania's petition to overturn a ruling finding it could possibly be held liable under the Americans with Disabilities Act in an incarcerated man's lawsuit alleging he was illegally denied access to proper medical care.

  • June 15, 2026

    Justices Won't Review Trump's First-Term China Tariff Hikes

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a case challenging tariffs that President Donald Trump installed and increased on Chinese goods during his first term.

  • June 15, 2026

    Board Says Marriage Doesn't Justify Reopening Removal Case

    The Board of Immigration Appeals has rejected a Mexican national's bid to have the board reopen his removal proceedings on its own accord following his marriage to a U.S. citizen, finding that he failed to show an exceptional situation.

Expert Analysis

  • 4 Emerging Limits Of Employer Mental Health Notice Defense

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    A California appeals court's recent decision in Husband v. Target, addressing when an employer knows about an employee's undisclosed disability, leaves open questions about how changes in mental health awareness and workforce monitoring tools may raise the bar for what employers can claim not to know, says Benjamin Heller at RFZ Law.

  • Raptors Ruling Shows Risks Of Calif. Enviro Suit Intervention

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    Intervention in California environmental litigation can allow businesses to help defend agency approvals, but after a state appeals court's recent ruling in Raptors Are the Solution v. CropLife America, it is clear that intervention also carries a price — and that courts will hold parties accountable for the full arc of their litigation conduct, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

  • A Decade Later, Escobar Is Still Shaping FCA Cases

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision 10 years ago in Universal Health Services v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar changed the way in which lower courts evaluate False Claims Act cases — and the ruling remains vital in nearly every FCA case filed today, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • Sripetch May Prove To Be An Empty Victory For The SEC

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Sripetch v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission held that the SEC need not prove pecuniary harm for disgorgement, but if the commission must still identify victims and distribute funds in a compensatory way, it faces the same economic problem as before the ruling, says Erin Smith at Compass Lexecon.

  • 9th Circ. Cooler Ruling Chills 1st Mover Lanham Act Claims

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Vericool World v. Igloo Products that Vericool's claim of being first-to-market with an ecocooler was not actionable under the Lanham Act largely foreclosed false advertising litigation over first mover status, so potential plaintiffs should instead look to patent counseling or intellectual property strategy for these claims, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • Mapping 5 Fronts Of The Prediction Markets Regulatory Battle

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    The legal framework governing prediction markets is under simultaneous challenge in five independent areas, and the outcomes will determine not just who can operate prediction markets, but the compliance obligations of every participant in the ecosystem, says Ivor Wolk at Manatt.

  • Patent Ruling Highlights Risks Of Late Inventorship Fixes

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Implicit v. Sonos demonstrates the risk of forfeiture with retroactive correction of inventorship in inter partes review proceedings, with a clear message to the patent community that potential inventorship issues should be considered at every stage of a patent's life cycle, say attorneys at BCLP.

  • Adjusting IPR Tactics As Google Fights 'Settled Expectations'

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    Google’s petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to scrutinize the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's so-called settled expectations practice underscores why accused infringers facing older asserted patents should treat discretionary denial as a case-dispositive risk from day one, says attorney Abdul Abdullahi.

  • 3 Misconceptions About Justices' FCC Fines Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's June 4 Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T decision rejecting AT&T’s and Verizon’s argument that the commission's forfeiture process violates the Seventh Amendment has yielded three common reactions that misunderstand the decision as a matter of law and how the FCC actually operates, says Samuel Feder at Jenner & Block.

  • SEC Disgorged Fund Distribution Is Next Query After Sripetch

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    Following the Supreme Court's Sripetch v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decision, investor harm isn't required for the SEC to obtain a disgorgement award, but future cases must resolve whether the commission will be freed from a requirement to distribute disgorged funds to the victims of alleged misconduct, says Daniel Walfish at Katsky Korins.

  • If Upheld, Wash. Millionaire Tax Could Upend State Law

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    The Washington Supreme Court could open the door to broader income, rental and corporate taxes if it defies precedent and the historically established desires of voters by redefining the state constitution's concepts of “income” and “property” to uphold a new tax on wages over $1 million, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

  • Trump Admin's Agency Records Purge Tests Judicial Notice

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    While courts commonly take judicial notice of data in government websites and reports, the Trump administration's recent modification or wholesale deletion of these sources means that litigants must look elsewhere to support trial admission of this information, says Jon Gryskiewicz at Lewis Baach.

  • Series

    Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

  • Fla. Driver Ruling Shows Renewed Focus On Privacy Standing

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    A Florida federal court's recent dismissal of a class action alleging that private driving records had been improperly used in violation of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act suggests that companies defending against privacy class actions in Florida may reconsider Article III challenges at the dismissal stage, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Vax Ruling Offers Employer Tips For Handling Political Speech

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    A California appeals court's recent decision in Rademacher v. ABC, rejecting a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging he was terminated for opposing a vaccine policy, demonstrates the importance of the employer's process, including neutral policies, documentation, and evidence of who knew what and when, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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